| Acknowledgment and Foreword | 9 |
Introduction
Looking Ahead
The Fourth Wave |
11 |
1. Non-Technological Revolutions
The Sexual Revolution
The Right Recipe for a
Revolution
Entering the
Third Millennium
The Master
Plan for the New Millennium
Our Legacy
Non-Renewable Resources
Looking to the Fourth Wave
Future |
14 |
2. Toffler's Waves of Change
The Pre-First Wave
Pre-Agricultural Life
The First Wave: The
Agricultural Revolution
The
Passing on of Wealth
The
Rise of the City
The Second
Wave: The Industrial Revolution
Industrial Technology: The
Power to Move Mountains
The
Third Wave: The Internet Age
OPEC
Toffler's De-Massification
The Missing Link
The New Century |
20 |
3. Energy: The Past and the Future
Ancient Energy
The
Carbon Cycle
Global Warming and the Carbon
Cycle
Transition Fuels
Renewable Energies
Renewable Energy Issues
Methane Hydrates: Energy of the Future?
The New Global Warming Equation |
28 |
4. The Resource Conservation Failure
The Rise of Consumerism
The Corporate Solution
Problems With the Business Resource Model
Planning for the Future
The Case of Energy
The
Case of Metals
The Substitution Argument
The Issue of Massive Use
The Suitability Issue
The Issue of Resource Ownership
The Scientific Breakthrough Argument
The Easy Science Issue
The Five-Billion-Year Question
Manganese Nodules: Panacea or Temptation?
Managing Resources for the Present and the
Future |
42 |
5. The Silent Poisoning of the Earth
Historical Perspective on Contaminants
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
Dioxins
Asbestos
Lead, Mercury, Vinyl Chloride, Fire
Retardants, and Jet
Fuel
The Conspiracy of
Silence
The Fourth Wave in the Making |
52 |
6. A Comprehensive Environmental Strategy
The First Principle
The Second Principle
The
Third Principle
Funding for a Comprehensive
Environmental Strategy
Taxation
Subsidies and Tax Breaks
Regulations
Policies for
the Future
Hitting The Jack Pot
A New Budget for the Environment |
58 |
7. Premises of Large-Scale Environmental
Change
The First Premise: Massive Scale
The Second Premise: Strong Political Support
The Third Premise: Minimal Social Commitment
The Fourth Premise: Implementability
The Fifth Premise: Market Efficient Mechanisms
The Sixth Premise: Focus on Resource
Conservation
The Seventh Premise: Landfill
Sites Are Limited |
68 |
8. The Massive Engine of
Change
The Current Incentive Structure
The Environmental Taxation System
A Brief Overview of the ETS
High-Efficiency Systems
Dual-Level Planning
Business-Friendly Green Policy
New Approaches to World Development
Tax Fraud
A New Future
General Issues Relating to the ETS
Keeping Taxation Progressive
Compensation for Lower Income Earners
Revenue Neutrality and Transparency |
74 |
9. Implementation Issues and Scenarios
The Silent Scenario
Feasibility
Geopolitical
Concerns
Rate of Implementation
Environmental Taxation Management Concerns
National and International Issues
Burden of Change
Implementation Scenarios
D-Day Implementation
Habit Shifts
Employment
Shifts
Competitiveness and Efficiency
The Forest Industry
What
Needs to Happen.Again |
85 |
10. A Blueprint for
National ETS Implementation
First Step:
Laying Out the Foundation
Second Step:
Short-Term Levels of Taxation
Third Step:
Progressive Implementation
The ETS Diffusion
Effect
Tax Diffusion Through an Economy
A New Consumer Environment
The Packaging Scenario
The Dynamism Issue |
105 |
11.
Disposable Grandchildren: Packaging/Contaminants
The 20th Century Approach
The Market Approach
The
Short-Term Market Approach
Generalities
Double-Taxing Inputs
Individual Taxation
Example of Individual Taxation
International Issues
Standardization
Used
Container Processing
Supply and Demand in the
Reuse Market
ETS Management of Renewable
Resources
The New Green Environment
Flexibility and Scalability of the Market
Approach
Contaminants
Industrial and Domestic Contaminants
The Agricultural Sector |
111 |
12. The Fossil Fuel Sector
The Intermediate Phase
The Market Approach to Renewable Energy
Benefits of an ETS Fossil Fuel Strategy
Energy Future for Producers
Ethanol-Blended Fuels
A
New Set of Problems
The New Economic Reality
New Land for Agriculture
A Market-Based Biofuel Strategy
Hydrogen Transportation: Panacea or Illusion?
Conclusion |
129 |
13. The
Automobile Industry
A Blueprint for a
Renewable Energy Future
The Hydrogen Future
The Biofuel-Electricity Future
The Common Ground
The
Convertible Electrical Vehicle
A Second Common
Ground: The Electrical Grid
The Automobile
Industry Under the ETS
Allowing for Transition
Transition in the Automobile Industry
The Chicken or the Egg |
139 |
14. SCECy Transportation
The Hybrid Question
Impact and
Directions
Public Transportation
Cycling
Individual
Transportation
Conservational and
Environmental Cars
SCECy Transportation: Size
Does Matter
Technical Issues Relating to SPVs
Trends for the Future
The Ready Market for SPVs
Safety for All
Fast-Tracking SCECy Transportation
International Markets
Developed Countries
Developing Countries |
146 |
15.
The Global Environmental Accord: Beyond Kyoto
The Kyoto Protocol
The Global Environmental Accord
The Non-Renewable Resource Component
The Fossil Fuel Component
The Environmental Standards Component
The New Environmental Politics
A View of the Future |
160 |
16.
The Environmental Revolution
Fundamental
Legitimacy
The Demographics
The Timing
The Plan
Your Part
Word of Mouth
Online Promotion
The
News Media
Best Places to Buy the Book
Governments and Corporations
The E-Book Project
Reading Lists
Consumer
Power
The Industry as Partner
Future of Scarcity or Greener Society
The New Landscape
Energy
and a Thriving Agricultural Sector
The New Law
of the Land | 180 |
Conclusion: Getting It Together
The New Lifestyles
Final Words | 185 |
| References |
187 |
